Mswati III, King of Swaziland

Chronology of Coverage

Aug. 1, 2012

Mbabane Journal; tensions are increasing between the populace of Swaziland, Africa's last absolute monarchy, and King Mswati III, who leads a lavish lifestyle while his subjects endure high taxes and increasing privations; citizens support the monarchy as a national symbol, but demand greater democracy and a larger share of the country's wealth. MORE

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Swaziland's 36-year-old playboy king, Mswati III, left, absolute monarch of a land where two-thirds of the population survives on an average income of less than $11 a month, has purchased a $690,000 Maybach 62, the ultraluxury Mercedes sedan from...

Forty percent of the country's population has contracted AIDS or carries its virus, giving the nation of 1.1 million people the world's highest H.I.V. infection rate, state radio quoted a United Nations official as saying. Stephen Lewis, the United...

An estimated 20,000 Swazis gathered at a traditional symbol of the monarch's power -- the royal cattle enclosure -- and waited for hours for the presentation of the country's long-awaited constitution. But despite years of consultations, the drafting...

November 15, 2003, Saturday

Not every grand event goes off without a hitch, but it is safe to say that few parades have been so decisively rained on -- literally and otherwise -- as the one over which King Mswati III presided here today. A ferocious thunderstorm descended...

September 7, 2003, Sunday

South Africa needs to intervene urgently in neighboring Swaziland to prevent the judicial system in the mountain kingdom from crumbling, the International Bar Association said. ''The legal system is slowly grinding to a halt,'' the group said in a...